--- title: "You well know what gormandizers they were," replied Quicksilver; an… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "You well know what gormandizers they were," replied Quicksilver; and rogue that he was, he could not help laughing at the joke. " Who acts: You, Quicksilver, rogue. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/99/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [Circe's Palace., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/) / 99 # Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 99 "You well know what gormandizers they were," replied Quicksilver; and rogue that he was, he could not help laughing at the joke. " **Who acts:** You, Quicksilver, rogue · **What happens:** know, reply, not be, laugh · **To what, where:** rogue, joke · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Quicksilver, rogue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:17:99 # text = "You well know what gormandizers they were," replied Quicksilver; and rogue that he was, he could not help laughing at the joke. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 4 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 11 obj _ _ 6 gormandizers gormandizer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 11 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 12 Quicksilver quicksilver NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 rogue rogue NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 24 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 xcomp _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | You | rogue | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Quicksilver | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 3 | **not** **is** | could · past | Quicksilver | rogue *not said here* | | | | help *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **laugh** *not said to happen* | gerund | rogue *not said here* | | | the joke | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/100/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/)